Roles and Responsibilies

I perform a wide range of both production and academic roles within the community.
Here are some notable contributions...

2016

Teaching

Masters Project Supervision

Project supervisor for CS conversion masters project students.

Teaching

Undergraduate 3rd Year Supervision

Managing students 3rd year undergraduate projects as they relate directly to our participatory media agenda

Research

TVX 2016 Workshop Chair

Workshop chair for TVX 2016

Research

ISS (formerly ITS) 2016 Associate Chair

Programme Committee member for ISS 2016.

2015

Research

ITS 2015 Associate Chair

Programme Committee member for ITS 2015.

Research

ITS 2015 Demo Chair

Demo chair for Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces conference 2015.

Research

TVX 2016 Associate Chair

Programme committee member for TVX 2016.

Research

CHI 2016 Associate Chair

PC member for the CHI conference.

2014

Research

CHI 2015 Associate Chair

PC member for the CHI conference.

Teaching

UITT Teaching

Lectures and practicals on Tangible and Surface interaction technologies to 3rd year Computer Science course.

Production

CHI’14 Work-In-Progress Chair

My role involved re-envisioning the poster session and attendee interaction and expereince with content during the event.

Production

TVX’15 Demo Chair

Demonstration chair for TVX 2015 responsible for recruiting, reviewing and producing the demo session on the ground in Brussels.

Production

TVX’14 General Chair

General chair for the first ACM Internation Conference on Interactive Experience of TV and Online Video hosted in Newcastle. Responsible for budget, production and conference activies for the 140 person event.

http://tvx2014.com
Teaching

Masters Project Supervision

Supervision of Computer Science conversion masters projects.

2013

Teaching

UITT Teaching

Lectures to undergraduate students on Tabletop and Surface Interaction for the UITT 3rd year programme at Newcastle University.

2011

Research

Microsoft Research Cambridge

Research intern at Microsoft Research Cambridge working with the .NET Gadgeteer team to explore the potential of rapid prototyping DMX and MIDI production models for performance.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/gadgeteer/

2010

Research

Tabletop ’10 SV Chair

Student volunteer chair for Tabletop 2010.

Research

BBC Research & Development

Visiting researcher at BBC Research and Development. I produced a tangible interface for Storyboarding on live production shoots, testing the system on location with BBC teams.

Production

Jam45 – Interactive Performance Technology

As event manager and lead tecnician for the event I was responsible for all staging, lighting and audio production. This included using NUILight as the venue controller using both a tablet PC and Microsoft Surface to provide an interactive lighting experience for the audience.

Production

ExhibitForge

A buisness partnership that emerged from an on-going relationship with the Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle upon Tyne. We provide a network of technical support staff on call for exhibit maintenance, builds and installations. To facilitate this service, I develop and manage an online ticketing system for both museum and technical support staff through which problems are tracked.

Research

Microsoft Research Redmond

Research intern at Microsoft Research Redmond, Seattle. Developed a multi-touch and tangible collaboration tool to explore surface computing for large data.

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